Ryan Tatar is a photographer and surfer currently based in Northern California.  His main body of work, entitled Sea-Tribes, is an ongoing photo essay “inspired by the ocean and marine layer... documenting various pods of eclectic surfers and coastal landscapes.”  His photographs, all shot on film the past several years, have brought him international attention inside and outside of the surf world.  His work and photographs have been mentioned or featured by magazines like the Surfer’s Path, Esquire, Complex, Huck, Blue Japan, and Desillusion France.  He has collaborated with both indie labels like The Critical Slide Society, Sub Pop Records (ala Fleet Foxes label) and Rake surfboards, to international brands such as Uniqlo, Element, O’Neill, PacSun, Lomography, and Billabong.